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free to pursue new options even if such options imply loss of profits for selected industries. The same is clearly true in pharmaceutical research, i… - Carl Sagan
" "free to pursue new options even if such options imply loss of profits for selected industries. The same is clearly true in pharmaceutical research, in the pursuit of alternatives to the internal-combustion engine, and in many other technological frontiers. I do not think that the development of new technologies should be placed in the control of old technologies; the temptation to suppress the competition is too great. If we Americans live in a free-enterprise society, let us see substantial independent enterprise in all of the technologies upon which our future may depend. If organizations devoted to technological innovation and its boundaries of acceptability are not challenging (and perhaps even offending) at least some powerful groups, they are not accomplishing their purpose.
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About Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.
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Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.
"Eskiçağ dünyasının bilimini çok aştık. Fakat bilim tarihine ilişkin bilgilerimizde büyük boşluklar var. Bunları doldurmak olanaksız. Günümüzde bir kitaplık okuyucusunun hangi kitabı okuduğunu gösteren kart gibi o zamanki bir kart elimize geçse kim bilir ne bilgiler edinebilir? Biliyoruz ki, Berossus adında Babilli bir rahibin yazdığı üç ciltlik "Dünya Tarihi" kayıptır. Bu kitabın ilk cildinin dünyanın yaratılışından Tufan'a kadar uzanan dönemi içerdiği sanılıyor. Sözü geçen kitapta yazar, bu dönemi 432.000 yıl olarak belirttiğine göre, Tevrat kronolojisinin yüz katı bir zamanı kapsıyor demektir. Merak ederim, acaba o kitapta ne vardı?..."
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